Topics of Interest
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following categories and their sub-domains.
Foundational Issues:
– Novel distributional models of meaning
– Distributional semantics and compositionality
– Distributional semantics and knowledge representation
– Geometrical and formal aspects of distributional semantics
– Comparative analysis between distributional and non-distributional (e.g., model-theoretic) models of meaning
Semantic Web & Databases:
– Distributional semantics for structured & semi-structured data
– Distributional query models
– Distributional reasoning models
– Web-scale distributional models
– Distributional semantics and data integration
– Distributional semantics and ontology alignment
– Knowledge consolidation
– Data-based ontology debugging
Information Retrieval:
– The relationship between IR, vector-space models and distributional semantics
– Distributional semantics and semantic relatedness
– Distributional ranking functions
– Distributional semantic search models and architectures
– Quantum-IR and distributional semantics
– Dimensionality reduction
Knowledge Acquisition:
– Concept formation
– Taxonomy learning
– Relation learning
– Ontology and axiom learning
– Distributional semantics and data mining
Experimental Analysis:
– Evaluation methodologies for distributional semantics
– Evaluation data sets and resources
– Comparative evaluation of distributional models
– Temporal aspects of distributional models
– Distributional semantics and high-performance/parallel computing
Applications:
– Applications using distributional semantics
– Domain-specific distributional models
– Use cases for distributional semantics
We especially encourage submissions that cover more aspects across multiple above-mentioned categories.